[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5411 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5411

To provide for the development and dissemination of evidence-based best 
   practices for health care professionals to recognize victims of a 
      severe form of trafficking and respond to such individuals 
                 appropriately, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 8, 2014

 Mrs. Ellmers introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide for the development and dissemination of evidence-based best 
   practices for health care professionals to recognize victims of a 
      severe form of trafficking and respond to such individuals 
                 appropriately, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Trafficking Awareness Training for 
Health Care Act of 2014''.

SEC. 2. DEVELOPMENT OF BEST PRACTICES.

    (a) Grant for Development of Best Practices.--Not later than 1 year 
after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Health and 
Human Services, acting through the Administrator of the Agency for 
Healthcare Research and Quality, shall award, on a competitive basis, a 
grant to an eligible school under which such school will--
            (1) not later than 6 months after receipt of the award, 
        develop best practices for health care professionals--
                    (A) to recognize victims of a severe form of 
                trafficking; and
                    (B) to respond appropriately to such individuals;
            (2) in developing best practices under paragraph (1), 
        survey, analyze, and evaluate existing best practices that 
        foster the practice of interprofessional collaboration, 
        including those used by industries other than the health care 
        industry, to determine the extent to which such existing best 
        practices may be adapted for use as part of the best practices 
        under paragraph (1);
            (3) develop curricula, training modules, or materials to 
        train health care professionals on the best practices developed 
        under paragraph (1);
            (4) not later than 12 months after the receipt of the 
        award, make a subgrant to one entity in each of the 10 
        administrative regions of the Department of Health and Human 
        Services--
                    (A) to design, implement, and evaluate a pilot 
                program using the best practices developed under 
                paragraph (1) and the curricula, training modules, or 
                materials developed under paragraph (3);
                    (B) to conduct the pilot program at one or more 
                eligible sites within the respective region, which may 
                include an eligible site that is a school-based health 
                center; and
                    (C) to complete the implementation and evaluation 
                of such pilot program with a period of 6 months;
            (5) not later than 24 months after the receipt of the 
        award, analyze the results of the pilot programs conducted 
        through subgrants under paragraph (4), including analyzing--
                    (A) changes in the acquired skills, knowledge, and 
                attitude of health care professionals resulting from 
                the implementation of the programs;
                    (B) the number of victims of a severe form of 
                trafficking who are recognized under the programs;
                    (C) of those recognized, the number who received 
                information or referrals for services offered through 
                the programs; and
                    (D) of those who received such information or 
                referrals--
                            (i) the number who participated in followup 
                        services; and
                            (ii) the type of followup services 
                        received;
            (6) determine, using the results of the analysis under 
        paragraph (5), the extent to which the best practices developed 
        under paragraph (1) are evidence-based; and
            (7) submit a comprehensive assessment of the pilot programs 
        conducted through subgrants under paragraph (4) to the 
        Secretary of Health and Human Services, including an 
        identification of--
                    (A) the best practices that are determined pursuant 
                to paragraph (6) to be evidence-based; and
                    (B) the best practices that are determined pursuant 
                to such paragraph to require further review in order to 
                determine whether they are evidence-based.
    (b) Contents.--The best practices developed through the grant 
awarded under subsection (a)--
            (1) shall address--
                    (A) indicators to recognize victims of a severe 
                form of trafficking;
                    (B) application of Federal and State law with 
                respect to victims of a severe form of trafficking;
                    (C) patient safety and security, including the 
                requirements of HIPAA privacy and security law as 
                applied to victims of a severe form of trafficking;
                    (D) the management of medical records of patients 
                who are victims of a severe form of trafficking;
                    (E) public and private social services available 
                for rescue, food, clothing, and shelter referrals;
                    (F) the hotlines for reporting human trafficking 
                maintained by the National Human Trafficking Resource 
                Center and the Department of Homeland Security; and
                    (G) assessment tools for the identification of 
                victims of a severe form of trafficking; and
            (2) shall not address patient medical treatment.
    (c) Dissemination.--Not later than 24 months after the award of a 
grant to a school under subsection (a), the Secretary of Health and 
Human Services, acting through the Administrator of the Agency for 
Healthcare Research and Quality, shall--
            (1) post on the public website of the Department of Health 
        and Human Services the best practices that are identified by 
        the school under subparagraphs (A) and (B) of subsection 
        (a)(7); and
            (2) disseminate to health care profession schools the best 
        practices identified by the school under subsection (a)(7)(A) 
        and evaluation results.

SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act:
            (1) The term ``health care professional'' means a person 
        employed by a health care provider who provides to patients 
        information (including information not related to medical 
        treatment), scheduling, services, or referrals.
            (2) The term ``HIPAA privacy and security law'' has the 
        meaning given to such term in section 3009 of the Public Health 
        Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300jj-19).
            (3) The term ``victim of a severe form of trafficking'' has 
        the meaning given to such term in section 103 of the 
        Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7102).
            (4) The term ``eligible school'' means an accredited school 
        of medicine or nursing with experience in the study or 
        treatment of victims of a severe form of trafficking.
            (5) The term ``eligible site'' means a health center that 
        is receiving assistance under section 330, 399Z-1, or 1001 of 
        the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 254b, 300).

SEC. 4. NO ADDITIONAL AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    No additional funds are authorized to be appropriated to carry out 
this Act and the amendments made by this Act, and this Act and such 
amendments shall be carried out using amounts otherwise available for 
such purpose.
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